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Steam vs Origin UI responsiveness

Steam vs Origin UI responsiveness test. I noticed Steam was slightly jerky to use, and I compared it to a similar program. Both are digital distribution services for PC games, but one is coded more natively to Windows (Origin) and the other more open source WebKit (Steam).

Delays in the user interaction negatively affects the user experience. I hope Valve manages to improve the UI response, as I rather prefer Steam over Origin :p and also prefer open source. This is easier to notice in real life than on a 30fps video, and even easier on a 120Hz monitor.

Maybe they can use Direct2D, Firefox, IE9 and Opera Next does, and they have awesome smoothness in web content. Try Firefox 12 or IE9 on some HTML5 tests: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/